CONTENTS
This Chapter makes a digression from the prosecution of Saul's
history, to relate an event in the life of David. While Saul was
distressed in the approach of the Philistines, and Achish was
proposing to take David with him to the battle; the lords of the
Philistines objecting to it, David... [ Continue Reading ]
(1) В¶ Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to
Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
(2) And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with
Achish.
It is to be supposed, thoug... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews
here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this
David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me
these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he
fell unto me unto th... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) В¶ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the
LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming
in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil
in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day:
nevertheless the lords favour thee... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast
thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this
day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
(9) And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good
in my sight, as an angel... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
I HOPE the Reader will feel his soul drawn out with mine, both to
admire and adore the faithfulness of God, in his deliverance of poor
David from the snare into which his want of faithfulness in his God
had brought him. Surely none but a wise God could have found the means
to have brough... [ Continue Reading ]